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Is English just badly pronounced French? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 days ago by DarkBluemetal@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No, it isn't.

It's a Germanic language* with a strong French influence, and the influence of pretty much every other language (so much so that it arguably has as many loan words as most other languages have words).

*A Germanic language is one that comes from the same precursor language that produced German.

Any linguist would tell you this, it's pretty surface-level stuff.

If you really want to understand the story, check out The History of English podcast.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The video covers that in the first few minutes.